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THEOLOGY 12 – CATHOLIC THOUGHT AND ACTION
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THE EXISTENCE OF GOD STUDY GUIDE
1. When did Thomas Aquinas live?
2. What is scholasticism?
3. Identify and define Thomas Aquinas’ Five Ways
4. Identify and explain the three serious reasons that the problem of evil is uniquely
important
5. Identify and explain the three forms of the problem of evil
6. Identify and explain the three levels of the problem of evil
7. Explain the two misconceptions of evil.
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8. How does Augustine define evil?
9. What does original sin have to do with evil?
10. Explain why spiritual death and physical death go together.
11. Why do human beings have free will?
12. What does heredity and environment have to do with one’s choices/actions?
13. If “all things are possible with God,” why didn’t God create a world without sin?
14. What is the source of evil?
15. Define logic
16. Why can’t even an omnipotent God forcibly prevent sin?
17. How does God’s omnipotence contribute to the solution of the problem of evil?
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18. What does it mean to say that goodness is more than kindness?
19. Identify and define the two meanings of happiness.
20. How does the shallow meaning of happiness create the problem of evil?
21. How does the deeper meaning of happiness solve the problem of evil?
22. Identify the six solutions to the problem of evil (page 142 of The Problem of Evil reading
packet)
23. Identify and explain Aquinas’ nine attributes of God.
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24. Define divine revelation.
25. Why is the Trinity the central mystery of Christian faith and life?
26. When was the ecumenical Council of Nicaea held and what did it profess?
27. When was the ecumenical Council of Constantinople held and what did it profess?
28. Explain the shield of the trinity.
29. What does it mean to say the Trinity is one?
30. What does it mean to say the divine persons are really distinct from one another? What
doesn’t it mean?
31. Explain the relationship between the Father and the Son.
32. Explain the relationship between the Holy Spirit and the Father and Son.
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33. Define atheism
34. Define agnosticism
35. Define theism
36. What reason did Albert Camus give for being an atheist?
37. What reason did Karl Marx give for being an atheist?
38. What reason did Friedrich Nietzsche give for being an atheist?
39. What reason did Sigmund Freud give for being an atheist?
40. What was John Henry Newman’s theory in regards to God’s existence?
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